1828
- Confederate Major General Thomas C. Hindman was born, in Knoxville, TN. He would find himself present when Arkansas voted 65-5 to secede from the United States. Hindman would raise ten companies of Arkansas volunteers by June 1861. He would be brought to Richmond, Virginia, where he would be promoted brigadier general. Being sent west, he would be involved in the fighting at Shiloh, where he would be injured. Upon return to service, he would be promoted to major general, and sent to Arkansas to oppose US Major General Samuel Curtis. Unfortunately, he would have very few troops to oppose Curtis. He would be partially successful, keeping Curtis out of the state capital – instead Curtis would move to Helena to reestablish his supply line. Hindman would be replaced, in Arkansas, by Lieutenant General Theophilus Holmes. In September 1868, he would be assassinated for his involvement in the Young Democracy – a political organization that embraced Reconstruction, to restore the Union.